著者
山本 裕子 Yuko YAMAMOTO 早稲田大学人間科学学術院人間総合研究センター Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences Faculty of Human Sciences Waseda University
出版者
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
雑誌
教育社会学研究 = The journal of educational sociology (ISSN:03873145)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.81, pp.45-65, 2007-11-30
被引用文献数
2

This study aims to identify issues of school management from a the perspectives of teachers in a credit-system high school, a new type of secondary school in Japan. Eleven teachers in the school were asked to write, on schedule sheets, what, when, where, and with whom they did their work. Based on the written schedule sheets, interviews were conducted on how the teachers saw their own work. As a result, it was found that teachers' work was composed of: 1) classroom lessons, 2) school affairs, and 3) teaching art-related special subjects. The teachers shared their work with one another. There were differences in their work according to their duties. In particular, there was a large difference of workload between those who taught art-related special subjects and homeroom teachers. The details of their work changed each month, but the total time taken up by their work did not change. This suggests that each teacher played many roles in school affairs, so that they spent their time doing a multitude of work. Teachers reported that they tended to add new work demanded by the new educational system onto their conventional work, and that they consequently felt very busy. This was the critical issue in the introduction of the new school system. There is a need to examine the organizational design which can effectively incorporate new work into conventional work after considering teachers' working form.